After talking about how to start using dance through difficult times and experiences, someone then asked a follow up question.
WHAT DO I MEAN WHEN I SAY TRANSMUTING THROUGH MOVEMENT!?!!?
In the Peony Method, we use dance/movement to FEEL ALL THE THINGS and then to transmute them and eventually to reestablish ourselves more and more in our original joybodies.
Feel all the things... how much we lock down parts of ourselves from this past year much less from the time we are little!
So there are, to say the least, LOTS of "all the things" that must first BE FELT.
This first step is massive. And it happens over and over and over again... again, this is a life's work sort of tool.
The transmuting part is less under our conscious control.
That's part of it... be courageous enough to feel the things and then to keep moving (metaphor alert) and feel some more and keep moving.
We move WITH the feelings. Giving them the space they need.
On a cellular level, this already changes us.
Over time, as we move with the things that we thought were maybe impossible to even begin to feel, we notice something...
That those things don't feel quite so impossible any more.
AH! The transmuting has begun.
See? In the background, it's the result of the work, not the work itself.
Whatever that "stuff" becomes eventually is not totally up to us.
What IS up to us is that we give the stuff the SPACE and the TIME it needs to DO whatever it is meant to do.
It's a mystery. In the real sense of that word. As in, sacred and beyond us and within our biggest selves and of this universe.
And this is the point of not ignoring the body. We cannot ignore the body.
The body is the mechanism through which this happens.
You can't THINK your way to this level of change. You can't force it or to-do list it.
All you can do is allow it.